Tom Martin - Managing Director of Product, E Source Data Science, Author at Utility Analytics Institute

Customer Technology

Using data science to break down program silos and better serve your customers

What if you could double the performance of your utility’s program portfolio without increasing marketing spend? The development of new technologies and new ways of applying data science can make this a reality for utilities and help enable…

Tom Martin - Managing Director of Product, E Source Data ScienceNovember 30, 2020

Hear The Stories...We Are UAI

UAI Honors Utility Analytics Teams, Leaders, and Professionals with 2020 Excellence Awards

Excellence Awards Celebrated this Week at UA Week UAI, the only organization dedicated to enabling utility transformation through analytics, in collaboration with the founding award partner, Bidgely, announced the winners of the first annual UAI Excellence Awards…

Leslie Cook, Membership & Engagement Manager, UAINovember 29, 2020

Customer Sponsored Technology

The Year of Utility Transformation: Becoming Energy Resilient, Dynamic Energy Providers Through AI

Throughout a year of unprecedented change in 2020, utilities have been committed to developing energy resilience through innovation. While resilience is often thought of only in a grid capacity, this year has seen a fundamental shift in which…

Abhay Gupta - CEO, BidgelyNovember 9, 2020

Utility leader Southern Company uses SAS to better manage COVID-driven fluctuations and keep operations steady

Southern Company is recognized as a bellwether utility in the United States and around the world. This leadership position is owed not just to its size – it’s operating companies serve over nine million electric and gas customers,…

Mike F. Smith & Laura Brumley, SASNovember 3, 2020

We Are UAI

Eleven Finalists Selected for the First Annual UAI Excellence Awards

UAI Awards Honor Individuals, Teams, and Organizations Leading the Way in Utility Analytics! UAI, the only organization dedicated to enabling utility transformation through analytics, in collaboration with the Founding Award Sponsor, Bidgely, announced finalists for its 2020 UAI Excellence Awards. UAI honors…

Leslie Cook (UAI's Membership & Engagement Manager)October 27, 2020

Strategy

The Colors of Hydrogen – Brown, Grey, Blue and Green – Think About It

Hydrogen is the latest buzz for meeting the world’s energy needs. It is another--and some say important--tool for meeting decarbonization goals. For utilities, hydrogen is being discussed as a way to decarbonize heating, lower power plant emissions and…

Jill FeblowitzOctober 27, 2020

Asset & Workforce Grid Sponsored Technology

Improving Asset Risk Mitigation by Making Data a Top Priority

Risk mitigation is the key reason to know the probability of failure of utility assets. Unfortunately, the utilities that know that best, are the ones that have had one or more catastrophic asset failures that jeopardized the safety…

Caitlin Frank, Adrian Larreal (Manager), and Debra Henderson (Principal Consultant)October 21, 2020

Asset & Workforce Technology

The Trouble with Tons – Tons of Image Data That is

PG&E recently received a CIO 100 Award for Excellence for its creative approach to wildfire risk. The utility applied machine learning to aerial images of transmission towers – PG&E has 2 million - to shorten the time it…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 29, 2020

Asset & Workforce Hear The Stories...

Wisdom Is In Communities, UAI Communities That Is

Have you ever met with utility analytics practitioners who are grappling with the same questions you are? I have. Have you ever participated in a meeting to help vet an early iteration of analytics architecture? I have. Have…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 15, 2020

eBooks Technology

Making AI Work – An NREL “How-to” Guide for Utilities

Utilities have seen the evidence; there is real value in using artificial intelligence (AI) to solve business problems. Artificial intelligence - encompassing machine learning, deep learning, natural language processing and image processing - has been successfully applied to…

Jill FeblowitzSeptember 1, 2020

Grid Technology

South America Forecast to Invest US$18.1 Billion in Smart Grid Infrastructure (Via T&D World)

Investment over the next decade to be led by Brazil, Colombia, and Chile. The fifth edition of the South America Smart Grid: Market Forecast study published recently by Northeast Group, LLC, says the South American smart grid infrastructure market will finally…

T&D WorldJune 30, 2020

Asset & Workforce Technology

Con Edison, NYCHA Complete Inspections, Upgrades at 29 Buildings (Via T&D World)

The company, working with NYCHA, reviewed the energy usage and equipment at more than 200 buildings and identified 29 of those for inspections. Con Edison has completed inspections and service upgrades at 29 NYCHA buildings, ensuring that residents will be…